Developing a scale to measure Japanese nurses' individual readiness for deployment to disasters.

Japan is a disaster-prone country, and Japanese registered nurses (RN) should be evaluated for their individual readiness for unexpected dispatches. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a scale for measuring individual readiness of Japanese RN for disasters. In our previous study in 2014, we developed a Japanese version of the Readiness Estimate and Deployability Index, which was originally developed in the USA in 1997.

Relationship-Building Skills of Child-Rearing Mothers in Japanese Communities.

This study elucidated the skills of mothers who used to build positive interpersonal relationships with people they met through child-rearing. The research method was qualitative descriptive study. The participants were 24 mothers who had children between ages of one and four years.

[Factors related to smoking and consumption of alcohol and kava in children attending the upper grades of primary schools in Vanuatu].

Objectives: To identify factors related to smoking and consumption of alcohol and kava in children attending the upper grades of primary schools in Vanuatu.

Methods: We conducted a self-administered survey of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students attending primary schools in both urban and rural areas of Vanuatu. The main survey items included questions on the personal attribute (sex, age, grade); experience of smoking and consumption of alcohol and kava; food consumption (local food/store-bought food); perceptions of local foods and store-bought foods; attitudes toward smoking and consumption of alcohol and kava; knowledge related to non-communicable diseases; attitudes toward health practices; guardians' health-related parenting attitudes; and family members' use of tobacco, alcohol, and kava.

Classification of caregiving families according to the Family Caregivers' Appraisal Checklist.

This study aimed to classify caregiving families according to the Family Caregivers' Appraisal Checklist (FACL; Horiguchi et al., 2012), which was originally developed to evaluate the probability of continuing caregiving. After nationwide targeting in Japan, the selected survey candidates included 1279 families utilizing domiciliary nursing services chosen by stratified two-stage sampling, and available data were obtained from 945 out of 1020 returned responses (return ratio: 79.

[Postpartum smoking behavior in women and related factors].

Purpose: To obtain basic data to formulate policies for preventing women from resuming smoking postpartum, this research sought to identify factors affecting continued abstinence and the resumption of smoking among postpartum women who stopped smoking during pregnancy.

Method: An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was sent by mail to 1736 mothers (1030 in City A and 706 in City B, Hyogo Prefecture) whose infants were due for their 18-month health check-up in September and October 2007 and collected on the day of the check-up. Items surveyed were the mother's age, full academic background, number of children, family structure, smoking history, attitude toward smoking and knowledge, husband's smoking history, level of satisfaction with abstinence during pregnancy, and child-rearing concerns.